in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel,

It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him;